Evaluation of occupational health and safety costs based on the emergency management process

With the rapid industrialization process, increasing mechanization and developing technological applications have caused occupational accidents to increase in number and affect a wide area. Work accidents have many negative consequences in terms of human, economic and legal dimensions for the employee, the employee's family and the business environment, the employer, the business and the State. These negativities, which are classified as visible and invisible costs (Direct and indirect costs) in the literature, have an effect that hinders national development and reduces national welfare when viewed from the perspective of the total cost to countries. Therefore, the main goal is to prevent or minimize the measurable and unmeasurable costs of accidents in ensuring a safe working environment in workplaces. At this point, in order to continuously improve the business process safety of the enterprise, determining and measuring process safety costs, covering the pre- and post-accident periods as a whole, becomes an important issue. In this study, it is aimed to determine and classify the security costs of an enterprise's business process, taking into account the emergency management process, and to develop a measurement system from a new perspective. As a result, it has been evaluated that a developed cost evaluation system will provide much more realistic and solution-oriented information and findings in determining where the business system is in terms of safety, and at the same time, this information and findings will be an effective tool in explaining the importance of occupational health and safety to business managers. Keywords: Emergency Management, OHS Economy, OHS Costs